Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirteen months ago, a determined delegation of labor leaders marched into the White House. Chafing under the Little Steel formula, they came to protest a Bureau of Labor Statistics report which had found only a 23.4% rise in the cost of living (from January 1941 to October 1943). Franklin Roosevelt had seldom seen labor so angry with him. He set up a committee, headed by WLBoss William H. Davis, "to look into the question." The committee included two labor mem bers, the C.I.O.'s R. J. Thomas, the A.F. of L.'s George Meany...
Committeeman Thomas charged flatly that the report did not measure the full rise in living cost, which he figures has gone up 44.4%. Committeeman Meany, who believes that everyone is entitled to exactly the same living standard now as before the war, said the report did not consider "hidden rises" in living costs, i.e., wear & tear on automobiles...
...horns in Hawaii, has come up with a G.I. Hamlet. Moreover, it has come up smiling. With Major Maurice Evans bossing the job and playing the introspective Prince for the first time since 1940, the effect on the dogfaces has been, for Evans, "simply staggering." They even rise above normal behavior by refraining from hollering or whistling when performers go into a clinch. Commented one G.I.: "They certainly must have done a lot of rewriting to bring that play so up to date...
...Laura" rates high for suspense value. Although Gene Tierney, who plays Laura, is murdered before the picture begins, her spectacular rise to fame and her peculiar death furnish the material for the plot. Detective Dana Andrews falls in love with a portrait of Laura. This upsets his sleuthing for a while until a near miracle occurs and the screen begins to swim with possible suspects...
...burrs that caused Writer Moses to rise in the saddle were two Times editorials: 1) endorsing Term IV; 2) declaring flatly for the President's plan to delegate postwar power to use U.S. armed forces without recourse to Congress. The Times's domestic arguments for Term IV Moses called "contradictory and unconvincing." The international argument, on which the Times based its qualified Roosevelt endorsement, he dismissed as "drivel . . . claptrap of the cheapest sort...